Ahmad Bayhaqi
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Ahmad ibn Husayn Bayhaqi, also known as Imam Al-Bayhaqi was born 384 AH in the small town of Khusraugird near Bayhaq in Khurasan [1]. During his lifetime, he became a famous Sunni hadith scholar.
His full name is Ahmad ibn al-Husayn ibn 'Ali ibn Abd Allah ibn Musa, Abu Bakr al-Bayhaqi al-Naysaburi al-Khusrawjirdi al-Shafi`i al-Ash'ari. He was a jurisprudent imam, hadith master, authority in the foundations of doctrine (usul), a scrupulous and devoted ascetic, defender of the Ash'ari School both in its foundations and its branches.
Al-Bayhaqi took fiqh from the imam Abu al-Fath Nasir ibn al-Husayn ibn Muhammad al-Naysaburi, among others. He took kalam (speculative theology) from the two Ash'ari imams Ibn Furak and Abu Mansur al-Baghdadi, the third generation of Ash'ari's students. He took hadith from al-Hakim and was his foremost pupil al-Sayyid Abu al-Hasan Muhammad ibn al-Husayn ibn Dawud al-Naysaburi al-Hasib, imam of Khurasan's hadith scholars and others of renown.
Al-Dhahabi said of the imam, "His sphere in hadith is not large, but Allah blessed him in his narrations for the excellence of his method in them and his sagacity and expertise in the subject-matters and narrators."
[edit] Works
- Al-Sunan al-Kubra (commonly known as Sunan al-Bayhaqi)
- Ma`arifa al-Sunan wa al-Athar
- Bayan Khata Man Akhta`a `Ala al-Shafi`i (The Exposition of the Error of Those who have Attributed Error to al-Sahfi`i)
- Al-Mabsut, a book on Shafi`i Law.
- Al-Asma’ wa al-Sifat (The Divine Names and Attributes)
- Al-I`tiqad `ala Madhhab al-Salaf Ahl al-Sunna wa al-Jama`a
- Dala’il al-Nubuwwa (The Signs of Prophethood)
- Shu`ab al-Iman
- Al-Da`awat al-Kabir (The Major Book of Supplications)
- Al-Zuhd al-Kabir (The Major Book of Asceticism)
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